Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-11-30

The WORLDS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
able disputes have been had relative to the
space required to contain the people of the
earth from Adam to the end of 5000 years.
The space required is comparatively in
significant when the almost Incompetent
sible number of people are taken into con-
sideration. The basis of calculation is
presumably overestimated. The present
population of the earth is reputed to be
l,4OO, 600, 900 people. We nave 1873 years
yet to complete 5000 years, but if we take
zoo, 600, 900 as an average dying every gen.
Grafton, we find that in 5000 years, allow
ing 331 years to a generation, $50 genera
tions will have passed, or 700, 900 ,OO0xlSO-
126, 600, 600, 1000 (billions) of people Willhave
existed at the completion of 5000 years.
Allowing one square yard to each, they
would occupy Il space OF 3!l,44S square
miles. This is q little more than 0ne-hal1
the size of Missouri (G3,4l5 miles, and
seven times less than the size of Texas
GIGS, $50 square miles,. Allowing 3x6 feet
for interment, Texas would afford burial
for three times the number, or on the same
basis, would contain all the people of the
earth for Is, 1000 years. Allowing 3 feet to
stand on, for each person, at the end of 5000
years they would make a belt around the
earth Ca, 900 miles, All deep, or from the
earth to the moon Goo, 900 miles, 50 deep,
whilst it would take eight times the num-
Der to extend from here to the sun in a
single line.-Kansds city Times.
INFLUENCE OF BEER ON DIGESTION
Professor H. A. Hare, M. D., of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, has recently been
subjecting to scientific tests the popular
idea that beer is an aid to digestion. 1t has
long been supposed by many that the
lighter forms of alcoholic liquors, particu-
Iarly the various forms of beer, are an aid
to digestion. The experiments made very
clearly show that beer distinctly retards
both salivary and gastric digestion. This
was true with reference to every specimen
of beer examined, some. seventeen in all.
In more than two-thirds of the specimens
of beer examined the stomach digestion
was delayed considerably more than n
hour, and in some instances the delay was
nearly two hours. Some recent expert
ments made by Professor Duggan, of Bal
show that alcohol in all its forms retards
the digestion to starch in a very marked
degree. These two sets of experiments
together show very conclusively that
beer retards the digestion in consequence
of the alcohol which it contains. When
it is considered that the nutritive value of
beer is so exceedingly small that a whole
hogshead contains no more actual nutri-
ment than a single loaf of bread, it will at
once appear that the popular faith in beer
as an aid to digestion or to nutrition has
no foundation whatever.-Good Health.
TRAVEL IN 1917 VERSUS 1854 mag
azine published in Philadelphia in 1918
gave the following as an item of news:
"In the course Of the twelve months of
1917 $1,000 wagons passed the Allegheny
Mountains from Philadelphia and Balti-
more, each with from four to six horses,
carrying from thirty-fve to forty hundred
weight. The cost of carriage was about$7
per hundred weight, in some cases as high
as $40, to Philadelphia. The aggregate
sum paid for the conveyance of goods ex-
ceeded 81, 500, 000." To move a ton of
freight between Pittsburg and Philadel-
phia therefore cost not less than $40, and
took probably two weeks time.
In 1886 the average amount received by
the Pennsylvania Railroad for the carriage
of freight was three quarters cent per ton
per mile. The distance from Philadel-
phia to Pittsburg is 3s5 miles, so that the
ton which cost $40 in 1917 was carried in
1856 for S2.87. At the former time the
Workingmen of Philadelphia had to pay
$14 for moving a barrel of flour from Pitts
burg, against % cents now. The Pitts
burg consumer paid 81 freight upon every
100 pounds of dry goods brought from
Philadelphia, which 100 pounds is now
hauled in two days at a cost of IA cents.
Mem York Times.